Name: Googleマップを暗記する天才、GeoGuesserのトリックとは | WIRED.jp
Uploaded: 2022-08-29T17:50:06.000Z
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Welcome to the world of geo guessing maybe Ghana, here's my best guess where players guess where they are on a google map based on one screen shot of google maps is the way I like to say Wire talk to search ever rain bolt.

If you look at this possum guard, those are distinctive Tasmania in Australia.

There's an easter road North Macedonia where there's dead flies on the camera to find out how he gets his country's in 0.1 seconds.

Oh my God Honestly I dedicated any answer free time in the past 13 months to Google maps and learning countries.

First we have to see is what Trevor doing, legit so we put them to the test immediately.

We have short plates, we have white on the bottom.

If I could see the crop here it would maybe be more helpful but I do think with the white paint pole bottoms in spanish with short plates I would probably guess Guatemala assuming you cut off the car.

I like to call these guesses vibe guesses more than anything because it is just so intuition based.

So that's using things like road line recognition vegetation, how tropical it looks, what the road is made out of.

How is the road quality even picking up on things like what google coverage they're using like what year was this country covered in.

So all these are going into like a calculated guess and every single guest.

Now let's look at some tips and tricks for geo guesser.

The first thing I always tell people to learn is telephone poles bollards learning what side the road countries drive on is extremely important.

There's a couple of things that we're looking for on utility poles, telephone poles, you're looking at what it's made of the design.

If there's stickers on it or different types of markings on the polls because all these different things together are very helpful and going into an educated guess.

There's different types of poles, there's ladder poles, there's holy polls, there's a frame poles, there's hook poles and then from there you have like, okay, this is a wooden, this is concrete, 95% of the polls there concrete in Australia are in Victoria.

So if I see a concrete pool and Victoria, if I see a black sticker driving left with looking very tropical, it's going to be mainland Malaysia or a blue sticker is in France on their telephone poles and ladder polls are in Spain Portugal France.

It's very, very helpful to learn these different types of poles and what different material each country uses on their telephone poles to help narrow down their guests bollards are pretty much as road markings in different countries.

Every country for the most part has a distinct bollard.

So pretty much if you see one baller, you know you're gonna be in that country.

There's a website called geo hints dot com to that has like all the ballers listed out.

Like Denmark has a yellow top or you can go into more region guessing based off like Canada, Well Alberta has black, white, black, white bollards or Australia and Turkey have similar bollards where it's like white with a red strip or new Zealand has white with a red strip, but the red strip goes from end to end.

License plates are extremely helpful as well.

It's worth mentioning all license plates are blurred so you have to learn what blurred license plates look like.

It's easier when it's like a very distinct color like yellow where if it's yellow front and back, it's gonna be Netherlands or Luxembourg.

If it's yellow just back, it's going to be the UK or sometimes France even the length of a license plate is a clue.

Mexico has short, colorful plates where Ecuador has short and long plates and then there's brazil that only has long plates.

Some spots are easily recognizable because of unique characteristics.

Sometimes it's the shape of the sign, the Hokkaido arrow sign where it's pointing at the road line.

It's only really found and where it snows really heavily in Japan, which is mainly in the north and sometimes it's really just knowing about the google map car, North Kyrgyzstan and south Korea are covered by different people.

So the reflection of the camera on the mirror is at a different angle.

So you will learn what percentage of the road you can see on the mirror so you can tell your in south Korea versus north.

And if you've seen Trevor's tick talks, you know, he's able to guess the location by literally just the soil, soil, guessing really goes into every single guest.

But basically you're looking at is you're looking at the color of the soil and over all the vegetation that's within the soil and around it as well.

And then overall it's a lot of it really is as much as I probably really couldn't describe it.

But like some things just look like south chile soil.

Okay around one here we have light gray soil, very air to climate.

What was your thoughts and once you have all that information, it's time to pinpoint when you're pinpointing, you're looking at things.

The first thing always when you're pinpointing is to look down at the road and see what direction the road is going.

So you can get the exact angle that the road is and then you can use that to reference the road angle on the map.

So I need to find something that lines up with the north, this angle with a curve west.

Obviously using signage is super helpful.

You know, if there's obviously a town name or a certain game or a highway number, you're gonna use that to pinpoint the roads from there.

Some countries are a lot easier and have a lot easier numbering than others.

Like for example, Denmark is a very easy to pinpoint because every road in Denmark is like labeled everywhere.

It's like one of the easiest pinpointed countries because there's just road numbers and towns everywhere.

Now let's see how Trevor guesses in 0.1 seconds.

So Sweden here is a very easy guest to most pro players mainly because really where you only get those short white dashed key outer lines is Estonia and Sweden but mainly very very common in Sweden Norway has dashed outer lines as well, but they're longer in length.

Oh my God, So the bollards we had in the bottom, right there, it's black and white, but if it was colored it would be white, red, white and it's like a lot bigger roundball earth.

The most usual bollards and those are only really found in Scotland and France.

But with driving right there we would have to be in France.

Even with all these tips, there are some places that are still really, really challenge faulty roulette is the death of a love world records.

So the Baltics are so hard because they all look the same the most that I struggle with our Indonesia and Russia because they're humongous fun fact.

If you take Indonesia and stretch it to actual size.

It's actually bigger than the United States, I don't think I've ever five K to Russia lock now that I remember it or Indonesia one day, one day I'm still getting things wrong, I'm still getting regions wrong.

Just going to be more precise at learning Australia and then eventually I'll probably go to Russia.

I would say after Russia's Turkey, I really want to get to Turkey.

That's the best part about this game is as much as the best player in the world is that this game he has so much to learn, especially as google updates coverage.

We get more countries recently India got released, which we've never had India coverage before.

So now we have to learn India, I love now nothing more than the community.

We're all just a bunch of nerds that sit in discord and search through locations and find different commonalities and countries and play together and be together.

There's probably 500 of us competing at a high level that's growing every day.

 We've done this forever for years for just ourselves. 